Wednesday, March 18, 2009

COSMIC ORGAN CHANTS

While visiting the exhibit of weird religious album covers I wrote about last week (highly-recommended, btw), I ran into Howie Pyro, of superstar mashup crew The Illuminoids (and that most Maniacal of podcasts Intoxica Radio) who informed me that, contrary to what I had written, he had contributed at least as many records to the show as Don Bolles. My apologies, Howie, I was just going by what the LA Times had suggested. Mislead by the mass media! Another first.

The exhibit reminded me of how many odd religious items I have. I was surprised - thrifting for tunes means coming across countless zillions of religious records, most of which get passed over. But I guess they can add up, even if you get just one in a hundred. So I thought I'd post some more from my archives. Yes, there's no shortage of scary Christian ventriloquist/ horrific child singers/ ranting preachers, etc. But here's a record I recognized from my collection (albeit with a different cover then the one shown) that's actually some nice listening."In the Land Beyond My Dreams: Organ renditions of Paramahansa Yogananda's Cosmic Chants, arranged and played by a Self-Realization Fellowship monk" is nothing but mystical organ instros a la '50s exotica star Korla Pandit, but this is from 1970. Ripped from a sealed vinyl copy I scored recently in Las Vegas on safari with my brother (thanks, dude!)"In the Land Beyond My Dreams"

01 - In The Land Beyond My Dreams02 - Blue Lotus Feet03 - From This Sleep Lord/Do Not Dry The Ocean of My Love04 - Light The Lamp of Thy Love05 - In The Valley of Sorrow06 - Recieve Me On Thy Lap07 - Deliver Us From Delusion08 - They Have Heard Thy Name09 - When Thy Song Flows Thru Me10 - When My Dream's Dream Is Done